USArabia?

Jewish World Review ^ | 3-22-06 | Abigail R. Esman

[SJackson]

A forward looking must-read about the potentially irreversible consequences of blending foreign investment and radical ideology

So they've cancelled the Dubai Ports World deal.

Feel better now? Safer?

I don't.

Because the problem is not just Dubai Ports World. It isn't even the recent reports that indicate the National Guard has been stretched too thin by the loss of both manpower and equipment to Iraq, or the upcoming release of two "Virginia Jihad" members, or the enrolment at Yale University of a former Taliban spokesman. It isn't the recent relaxation of security rules on airplanes (knives, scissors and knitting needles allowed on board and fewer bag searches at airports), and the continuing lack of security measures at major train stations throughout the country. It's not even the fact that Dubai pulled out of the deal only when faced with an in-depth investigation and at the request of the President (from whom, one can be certain, alternative promises were made in exchange).

This is something much, much bigger.

[SJackson]

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[Salem]

Yet, the massive majority outcry in America against the port deal, which translated into sheer political force in Washington to crush it, was mocked as "racist," "uninformed," "ignorant," etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Yet, I think I can speak for the majority American, that the personal reading and research on all things Islam and Arab since 9/11, both here at Free Republic and private, certainly flies in the face of these ad hominem attacks.

We shouldn't be forced to live as dhimmis to placate globalism and its proponents.

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[mikethevike]

Ugh - not uplifting. I agree that this is the real threat and an effective tactic of the Muslums.

[FBD]

PING:

"Influence and investment in the USA by Muslim nations — particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE — not only continues, but is escalating, invading our institutions with the $20 million grant to Harvard University by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for the establishment of an Islamic Studies program (which can surely be expected to teach the kinds of things that similarly-sponsored schools teach in Europe); with the purchase last fall by Dubai's crown prince Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of 230 Park Avenue, the building above New York's Grand Central Station; with the takeover by another Dubai firm, Dubai Holdings, of the Doncasters Group, a UK-based manufacturer of parts for military aircraft, tanks, and petrochemical markets with plants throughout the US and Europe.

Doncasters' — now Dubai Holding's — biggest clients? Boeing, Honeywell, Siemens, and General Electric.

(It is perhaps worth noting that, as with the Dubai Ports World transactions, many of those companies agreeing to be purchased are not only European, but that of our closest European ally: Great Britain. And to quote a piece in Al Bayan, a government run UAE newspaper as cited by the Anti-Defamation League: "...But who planted the biggest and the most dangerous virus in the region? Isn't it Britain and Europe who planted the Israeli virus? Isn't America protecting and injecting this virus in every aspect of life so it can penetrate and become monstrous?").

Yet when questioned on these transactions, their defenders are quick to pull the "racism" card, arguing that we don't want to anger our "friends" in the United Arab Emirates, who have, they argue, supported and assisted some of America's anti-terror efforts..."

[JudyB1938]

"We shouldn't be forced to live as dhimmis to placate globalism and its proponents."

Amen to that.

[strategofr]

"In other words, the deal is struck: they'll be nice to us as long as we let them take over our ports, our real estate, our train stations (the ones lacking security systems), our institutions. If we refuse them, they may — so the argument goes — get angry, pack up their toys and go home, and then come back to bomb us in the morning.

These, we call our friends.

This, I call succumbing to terror.

This, I call dhimmitude."

You can find this pattern occurring throughout the world much more recently than the seventh century. It is basically the way he the Soviets and Communist Chinese have behaved. and how the Russians are increasingly behaving as they emerge from their recent period of weakness.

I believe the Russians and Chinese are the drivers for what is going on in the world today---and the Islamacists are their great tool.

[Convert from ECUSA]

" We shouldn't be forced to live as dhimmis to placate globalism and its proponents."